Talk for UTS FASS Alumni on our future library & social mediaMal Booth
A two-part talk from 15 November given to alumni from the UTS Faculty of Social Sciences about enabling technologies for our future Library and how social media and social networks might be useful to adult educators and learners.
This PDF file includes the speaker's notes.
Free software options for authoring open textbooks and open books, including Google Docs, OER Commons Open Author Tool, Pressbooks, Moodle Book Module, OERPub Textbook Editor, and LaTeX.
Talk for UTS FASS Alumni on our future library & social mediaMal Booth
A two-part talk from 15 November given to alumni from the UTS Faculty of Social Sciences about enabling technologies for our future Library and how social media and social networks might be useful to adult educators and learners.
This PDF file includes the speaker's notes.
Free software options for authoring open textbooks and open books, including Google Docs, OER Commons Open Author Tool, Pressbooks, Moodle Book Module, OERPub Textbook Editor, and LaTeX.
The Benefits Of Doing Things DifferentlyMike Ellis
During October and November 2009, Mike Ellis (Eduserv) and Dan Zambonini (Box UK) built a museum website in 12 hours from beginning to end, under the title "Museum In A Day".
These slides accompany a workshop we delivered at DISH 2009 with the same title (see http://www.dish2009.nl/node/89)
The workshop uses the Museum In A Day project as a means to frame the wider conversation, and looks at where online museums are in terms of audience, traffic and reach, asking:
- How can we do things differently?
- How can we do more with less?
- How can we be where our audiences are?
For an overview of the Museum In A Day project, see http://museuminaday.com/
Vks Presentation, Jankowski,15 Jan2009, Websites & Books, Near FinalNick Jankowski
Network Venues & Scholarly Monographs:
Pioneering Initiatives in Publishing e-Scholarship
Abstract
Scholarly publishers are increasingly incorporating Web sites into facets of the enterprise. Often, such sites primarily serve basic promotional and purchasing functions, but occasionally sites of both publishers and authors reflect other functionalities: search facilities, availability of published text, referral to instructional and research materials, hyperlinks to external sources, opportunity for reader-author exchange. This presentation provides a panoramic overview of Web sites recently prepared by publishers and/or authors that complement traditionally published scholarly monograph. This overview is intended to stimulate discussion of suitable Web functionalities that might be incorporated into monograph publications being prepared by scholars affiliated to the Virtual Knowledge Studio.
Introduction to digital libraries - definitions, examples, concepts and trend...Olaf Janssen
This presentation gives an introduction to digital libraries.
It first explores different defintions of the phrase "Digital Library".
It then looks at 11 real life examples of digital library websites (slides 44-112), including Europeana, Google Books, Flickr the Commons, Delpher, Wikisource, The Memory of the Netherlands and Project Gutenberg. Each of these DLs is assessed against five different criteria (concepts, properties)
- Content/User experience
- Cultural heritage domain (libraries, archives, museums, AV-institutions)
- Controlled / run by
- Content providing parties
- User involvement
Many references are made to Web2.0-concepts from Tim O'Reilly's article http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
From these 11x5 = 55 datapoints 6 trend plots are drawn (slides 116-166) to show "what is hot" and "what is not" in the current DL-landscape. Key slide summarizing this = no 168
Finally, some strategies for content & brand distribution of DLs are being discussed (SEO, Wikipedia, social & ego networks) , as well as some financial trends in DLs
This presentation was given by Olaf Janssen (National Library of the Netherlands - KB) as a lecture for students of the master's course "The Library" at Leiden University, most recently on 3-11-2016.
The Benefits Of Doing Things DifferentlyMike Ellis
During October and November 2009, Mike Ellis (Eduserv) and Dan Zambonini (Box UK) built a museum website in 12 hours from beginning to end, under the title "Museum In A Day".
These slides accompany a workshop we delivered at DISH 2009 with the same title (see http://www.dish2009.nl/node/89)
The workshop uses the Museum In A Day project as a means to frame the wider conversation, and looks at where online museums are in terms of audience, traffic and reach, asking:
- How can we do things differently?
- How can we do more with less?
- How can we be where our audiences are?
For an overview of the Museum In A Day project, see http://museuminaday.com/
Vks Presentation, Jankowski,15 Jan2009, Websites & Books, Near FinalNick Jankowski
Network Venues & Scholarly Monographs:
Pioneering Initiatives in Publishing e-Scholarship
Abstract
Scholarly publishers are increasingly incorporating Web sites into facets of the enterprise. Often, such sites primarily serve basic promotional and purchasing functions, but occasionally sites of both publishers and authors reflect other functionalities: search facilities, availability of published text, referral to instructional and research materials, hyperlinks to external sources, opportunity for reader-author exchange. This presentation provides a panoramic overview of Web sites recently prepared by publishers and/or authors that complement traditionally published scholarly monograph. This overview is intended to stimulate discussion of suitable Web functionalities that might be incorporated into monograph publications being prepared by scholars affiliated to the Virtual Knowledge Studio.
Introduction to digital libraries - definitions, examples, concepts and trend...Olaf Janssen
This presentation gives an introduction to digital libraries.
It first explores different defintions of the phrase "Digital Library".
It then looks at 11 real life examples of digital library websites (slides 44-112), including Europeana, Google Books, Flickr the Commons, Delpher, Wikisource, The Memory of the Netherlands and Project Gutenberg. Each of these DLs is assessed against five different criteria (concepts, properties)
- Content/User experience
- Cultural heritage domain (libraries, archives, museums, AV-institutions)
- Controlled / run by
- Content providing parties
- User involvement
Many references are made to Web2.0-concepts from Tim O'Reilly's article http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
From these 11x5 = 55 datapoints 6 trend plots are drawn (slides 116-166) to show "what is hot" and "what is not" in the current DL-landscape. Key slide summarizing this = no 168
Finally, some strategies for content & brand distribution of DLs are being discussed (SEO, Wikipedia, social & ego networks) , as well as some financial trends in DLs
This presentation was given by Olaf Janssen (National Library of the Netherlands - KB) as a lecture for students of the master's course "The Library" at Leiden University, most recently on 3-11-2016.
This is the presentation I gave at the Internet Archive's "Make Books Apparent" meeting, held in San Francisco, October 19-20, 2009. The meeting was mainly about our exciting new project, called BookServer, a distributed lending & vending system over the Internet.
This might be a little elliptical - its the slides to go along with my Pecha Kucha-style Reference Renassance conference report (with a few added annotations to add a tiny bit of context.)
I was proud to deliver the opening keynote for the 2023 Museums+Tech conference this year. It was a good chance to check in and report back on where we're at with the Flickr Foundation, and to comment on the not-necessarily-good proliferation of thin GLAM data online.
MCG-Tech Keynote, 23 Nov 2023.pdf
This was the first major presentation I've given about my new role as Founder and Exec Director of the Flickr Foundation. It was fun to open the day's proceedings, and I enjoyed chatting with people after the talk was done.
See flickr.org for more information. We're just getting established!
Museum in a Box: A 21st Century Handling CollectionGeorge Oates
I gave this presentation at the Do Not Touch? 3D in Museums conference in Cambridge, 3rd June 2019. The Fitzwilliam Museum is currently engaging Museum in a Box to co-develop an AHRC-funded research project looking at 3D in museums (and whether it's good, or not).
https://creative-economy.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/conference-programme/
Presented to senior EU cultural figures at A Vision for European Cultural Heritage 2025, I presented Museum in a Box as a forward-thinking company trying to succeed in making the best of the current state of digital cultural heritage.
There's a second version with my presenter notes here:
https://www.slideshare.net/george08/museum-in-a-box-a-case-study-with-notes
Museum in a Box: A Case Study (with notes)George Oates
Presented to senior EU cultural figures at A Vision for European Cultural Heritage 2025, I presented Museum in a Box as a forward-thinking company trying to succeed in making the best of the current state of digital cultural heritage. (Notes included in this version).
Keynote Presentation: Every Collection is a SnowflakeGeorge Oates
Presented at EuropeanaTech 2018 in Rotterdam. Key themes include history of collections, visualising collection metadata, no search box, and small pieces loosely joined. Oh, and metadata haircuts :)
3D Museums: tactile learning, greater accessGeorge Oates
Here are the slides for a presentation I gave at Faro's "Heritage, virtual and augmented" conference in Brussels in November 2016.
http://www.faronet.be/kalender/erfgoed-virtueel-en-augmented
3D Museums: tactile learning, greater access (with presenter notes)George Oates
Here are the slides for a presentation I gave at Faro's "Heritage, virtual and augmented" conference in Brussels in November 2016.
http://www.faronet.be/kalender/erfgoed-virtueel-en-augmented
Libraries & Tech for Good, 11 July 2016 (without notes)George Oates
I was one of four presenters showing their work at the last Tech for Good meetup before the summer break, organised by Cassie Robinson.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/libraries-tech-for-good-tickets-26315183422
Libraries & Tech for Good, 11 July 2016 (with notes)George Oates
I was one of four presenters talking to a crowd of #techforgood appreciators at Somerset House. I was there to describe the project we worked on with the Wellcome Trust, called What's in the Library?, a digital exploration of the extent and richness of the Wellcome Library catalogue.
Museums Tech 2016 Digital Festival - Museum in a BoxGeorge Oates
This presentation has no notes. There's one with notes here:
http://www.slideshare.net/george08/museums-tech-2016-digital-festival
Presented at this conference: http://www.museumsassociation.org/find-an-event/museum-tech-2016
Design and R&D in the Digital Humanities, UCL Digital Humanities SeminarGeorge Oates
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/events/archive/designandranddindh
Start: Nov 25, 2015 05:30 PM
End: Nov 25, 2015 06:30 PM
Location: Arts and Humanities Common Room, G24 Foster Court
UCLDH Seminar
Good, Form & Spectacle is a London design firm focused on cultural heritage projects. They work on R&D projects, software tools and products, and have a small batch of clients. Their R&D is both digital and physical, as they work on designing fun exploratory interfaces for gigantic cultural collections, and contrast that with making a physical place called The Small Museum. George Oates, Director at Good, Form & Spectacle, will speak about the work they are currently involved in.
This is the talk I gave at The Story in February 2015. It's about a book I made called If Only The Grimms Had Known Alice.
http://thestory.org.uk/
http://goodformandspectacle.com/ifonly
It's getting easier to pass cultural heritage data around every day. I'm concerned we're passing it around for the sake of it, and need to start thinking about its form more, so we can help people see what's hidden inside it like they would see things hanging in a museum.
"The Museums Computer Group are delighted to announce George Oates as the opening keynote speaker at UKMW14. As the creator of Flickr Commons, she’s had a huge impact on the cultural sector. As if that wasn’t enough, her wider experience has given her an international and interdisciplinary perspective on design and technology, and a sense of which developments in the digital world are important for audiences. With a wave of her magic wand, her keynote will take a long view on the digital heritage sector. Which significant changes in the digital world have affected the UK museum sector in the past few years, and how have cultural organisations prepared themselves for the changes ahead?"
http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/2014/10/14/hear-creator-flickr-commons-introducing-ukmw14s-opening-keynote/
This is a lecture I gave to undergraduates and Masters students at the Communication Design School at Texas State University. Thank you to Jill Fantauzza for the invitation!
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdf
Kohacon 2010
1. Hello.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Hello. I’m George Oates, Project Lead of the Open Library project, from the Internet Archive in
San Francisco.
2. Some rights reserved by Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Wow! Congratulations on 10 years! I’m Very Impressed by the strength of the Koha
Community and the remarkable distributed development that’s built this awesome software.
Congratulations on being one of the web’s best open source systems.
3. Open Library & Koha
Sitting in a Tree
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I’m a web designer by trade, so had a fairly steep learning curve into the world of libraries
and bibliographic metadata when I started the job in the middle of last year. As I began to
learn the lay of the land, Koha quickly became apparent as a first class piece of open source
library software, and I wrote to Chris to see if I could come to KohaCon, and... here I am!
I’m bummed that I can’t stick around for the Hackfest later, so hopefully, I can show you
enough about Open Library to get you interested to use it as a resource... But first, a short
introduction to the Internet Archive...
4. Some rights reserved by mattdork
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I work at the Internet Archive, leading The Open Library project. We recently moved in to this
church in The Richmond in San Francisco. We’re turning it into a library.
5. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We’re based in San Francisco, California, where I happen to have been living for about 5
years.
6. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
It’s a great town, and if you ever come, let me know and I’ll take you out for a drink!
7. Universal Access to
All Knowledge
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Since 1996, the non-profit Internet Archive has been building a digital library of Internet sites
and other things in digital form. archive.org has a ton of texts, video, software, live music...
all sorts of things.
Our mission is Universal Access to all Knowledge. Not a bad reason to get out of bed each
day...
8. Some rights reserved by heather
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
It’s not your traditional non-profit... Lots of the staff are technologists and developers.
9. archive.org
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We have many computers. They store over
- 100,000 hours of TV from channels all over the world
- 250,000 moving images or video
- 500,000 audio recordings
- 2.5 million scanned texts
- 150,000,000,000 web pages
10. By rkumar
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Just the other day we had 2.88 petabytes of hard drives delivered. That’s enough storage for
about 2 billion books.
11. The Wayback Machine
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
One of the more well-known things the Archive produces is The Wayback Machine. It’s been
capturing and storing the Internet since 1996.
For example, this is a snapshot of the National Library of New Zealand’s website, captured on
July 7, 2000.
13. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Another service the Archive offers is something I thought the librarians amongst us might be
interested in. It’s sort of like a mini Wayback Machine that people can use to curate web
collections around a certain topic or event.
14. Curated Web Collections
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
For example, this is an ini1a1ve of Columbia University Library's Center for Human Rights
Documenta1on and Research, the Human Rights Web Archive is an effort to preserve and ensure
access to freely available human rights resources created mainly by non‐governmental organiza1ons,
na1onal human rights ins1tu1ons, and individuals.
15. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Another major part of what we do is scanning books. This is a picture of one of the scanning
centers in San Francisco. We currently employ about 200 staff scanning books
16. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
And today, we have over million free texts available online ‐ that includes over 1 million books
150 million pages scanned
1,000 books scanned EVERY day
24 scanning centers in 5 countries, and we hope for more.
17. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We’re also scanning microfilm, which is much faster than individual books. Here’s an example of the record of the popula1on census from
1790 to 1930. Scanned from microfilm from the collec1ons of the Allen County Public Library and originally from the United States
Na1onal Archives Record Administra1on.
19. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Over 1 million free books that you can read on archive.org today, and access through the
Open Library site, by checking the little “Only eBooks” box as you search.
20. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
As well as being able to download these books in a variety of different formats, from PDF to
TXT and more, we also have a web-based book reader, which you can use to read our
scanned texts within your web browser, without the need for any additional software.
I’ve actually come to Wellington direct from a meeting in San Francisco called Books in
Browser, held at the Internet Archive last week. It was there that we announced an upcoming
new release of our bookreader, which will hopefully go live in the next few weeks... Here are
some screenshots...
21. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The main reason we wanted to improve on the current design was to try to build an “app-
level quality” book reading experience right in the browser. This included several
improvement for touch interfaces in browsers on devices like the iPad.
From a straightforward design perspective, there were also improvements to be made on
usability and simple stuff like making the book bigger in the browser window.
22. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
This is a screenshot with the toolbar open, where you can see new features like a navigation
bar at the bottom that allows you to scroll through the book, a “read to me” feature which
plays the book in a computer-y voice, and highlights what’s being read. Also, if we know a
table of contents for the book, each chapter is mapped along the navigation bar.
We’ve also rewritten the full text search engine, and I’ll talk more about that a bit later.
23. By rkumar
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Apologies for the slightly blurry picture, but this is my boss, Brewster Kahle, who founded the
Internet Archive back in 1996. He’s playing with a touchscreen which is displaying the new
bookreader. The screen’s been installed in one of the reading desks that used to sit in the
reading room of the Christian Science church before it became our new home. A big part of
the bookreader redesign was to evolve an app-level quality book reading experience within a
web browser. If you have an iPad, I’d encourage you to try it!
24. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Before I move on to talking about Open Library, I wanted to show you something specific that
the scanning co-ordinator in Boston drew my attention to - it’s Isaac Newton’s OWN COPY of
his book, Opticks. It has Newton’s own handwriting and annotations in the scan... SO COOL.
And now, I want to shift gears into talking about Open Library, designing a web-based
catalog, and direct Koha peeps here towards resources that we have which you might be
interested in...
27. A “Wikipedia for Books”
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
There are a few different ways to describe what it is, but I think the explanation that makes
the most sense is “a Wikipedia for Books”.
28. A wiki is a website that allows the
easy creation and editing of any
number of interlinked web pages
via a web browser using a
simplified markup language or a
WYSIWYG text editor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Here’s the Wikipedia definition of a Wiki...
29. Open Library is a website that
allows the easy creation and
editing of any number of
interlinked catalog records via a
web browser using a simplified
markup language or a WYSIWYG
text editor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
And a slight tweak specific to Open Library.
30. One web page for every
book ever published.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Our goal is to have one web page for every book ever published. So, at its heart, Open Library
is an open, editable bibliographic data repository.
32. Data In
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Getting new records...
The project began by collecting bibliographic records from libraries around the world like the
Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, Cambridge University and many more. So far, we
have about 25 million edition records, millions of authors, millions of book covers, millions
of subjects.
33. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
This is ImportBot. He gets new catalog records from the Library of Congress and puts them
into Open Library every Tuesday. We also import records from Amazon, and from the Internet
Archive. ImportBot looks for recently scanned books, and creates new records (or merges
them with existing ones) just a few minutes after the record is created on the Internet
Archive.
34. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
You can see ImportBot working away, just like you can see the Wiki’s edit history for every
person who edits something.
35. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Individuals can also add new books with a few details like Title, Author, Publisher and Publish
Date. That’s enough for a stub, and then people are invited to add more details.
36. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
This is a screenshot of books added - which is available as a filter on the Recent Changes
page. You can see we average about 10-20 books per hour, added by indivduals around the
world.
37. Designing a
library catalog
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I am not a librarian. I was on the original team which built flickr.com, that photosharing
website. It’s a messy chaotic place from which order emerges organically. I wanted to see if
some of the things I learned there could be applied to a library catalog, and riffing of David’s
talk on Monday, “Library Data for Fun and Profit, there was no denying that the Open Library
catalog is BIG DATA, but like so many other library catalog, its treasures are often obscured.
38. “Library metadata is
diabolically rational.”
Karen Coyle
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I’ve enjoyed collaborating with Karen Coyle, advisor to the Open Library, and self-described
metadata czar of the project. She’s been profoundly useful helping the team navigate all the
data we have, and answering our silly questions.
I was struck by her description of the data we’re dealing with.
39. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I also no1ced that loads of library websites start with a search box. The visitor is expected to know what they’re looking for, and there’s no
way to browse around.
40. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
‐ There’s a presump1on of knowledge, not encouragement of explora1on
‐ How do I know what to search for if I don’t know what you’ve got?
‐ How do I wander the stacks?
41. 41
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I was very pleased to discover the wri1ngs of a chap called Alberto Manguel. His thinking on libraries has been deeply influen1al.
42. “Books, even after they have been
given a shelf and a number, retain a
mobility of their own. Left to their
own devices, they assemble in
unexpected formations; they follow
secret rules of similarity, unchronicled
genealogies, common interests and
themes.”
Alberto Manguel,The Library at Night
Page 163,“The Library as Chance”
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
So, in the context of diabolical rationality, this excerpt seems appropriate to exposing the
depths of the catalog.
43. “Books, even after they have been
given a shelf and a number, retain a
mobility of their own. Left to their
own devices, they assemble in
unexpected formations; they follow
secret rules of similarity, unchronicled
genealogies, common interests and
themes.”
Alberto Manguel,The Library at Night
Page 163,“The Library as Chance”
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Here are some other interesting examples...
44. Catalog as
Landscape?
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
How do you see the shape of a catalog? How can you see its boundaries and edges? How can
you move through it differently than search and retrieve?
Photo by me
45. Some rights reserved by tuppus
Deconstruction
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
So, as David talked about on Monday, what treasures lie in wait within this diabolical scheme
of description that are waiting to be uncovered? What happens if you blow it up?
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049 $aSFRA
092 $aF$bSaLinger 1953
100 1 $aSalinger, J. D.$q(Jerome David),$d1919-
245 14 $aThe catcher in the rye.
260 $a[New York] :$bNew American Library,$c[1953, c1951]
300 $a192 p.$c18 cm.
490 0 $aSignet book,$vD1667
500 $aReprint of the 1945 ed. published by Little, Brown, Boston.
590 $aBarbara Grier and Donna McBride collection.
650 0 $aTeenage boys$vFiction.
650 0 $aBrothers and sisters$vFiction.
650 0 $aPreparatory schools$vFiction.
650 4 $aAlienation in teenagers$vFiction.
650 4 $aTeenage boys$xInterpersonal relations$vFiction.
650 4 $aEmotionally disturbed teenage boys$vFiction.
690 $aBarbara Grier and Donna McBride collection.
655 4 $aQueer pulps.
907 $a.b15331775$b10-24-07$c07-20-03
998 $axsf$b07-01-03$cm$da$e-$feng$gnyu$h4$i1
935 $aADM-9576
907 $a.b15331775$b02-23-04$c07-20-03
998 $axsf$b07-01-03$cm$da$e-$feng$gnyu$h4$i1
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$t1$u0$v0$w0$x0$y.i25499191$z08-05-03
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Here is a MARC record. Full of data!
Let’s see what happens when you explode Library of Congress Subject Headings. This data
isn’t even in Open Library - we borrowed it from loc.gov then pulled out the dynamite...
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008 750117r19531945nyu 000 1 eng u
019 $a4338553
040 $cSLC$dOCL$dTXA$dSFR$dOCoLC
049 $aSFRA
092 $aF$bSaLinger 1953
100 1 $aSalinger, J. D.$q(Jerome David),$d1919-
245 14 $aThe catcher in the rye.
260 $a[New York] :$bNew American Library,$c[1953, c1951]
300 $a192 p.$c18 cm.
490 0 $aSignet book,$vD1667
500 $aReprint of the 1945 ed. published by Little, Brown, Boston.
590 $aBarbara Grier and Donna McBride collection.
650 0 $aTeenage boys$vFiction.
650 0 $aBrothers and sisters$vFiction.
650 0 $aPreparatory schools$vFiction.
650 4 $aAlienation in teenagers$vFiction.
650 4 $aTeenage boys$xInterpersonal relations$vFiction.
650 4 $aEmotionally disturbed teenage boys$vFiction.
690 $aBarbara Grier and Donna McBride collection.
655 4 $aQueer pulps.
907 $a.b15331775$b10-24-07$c07-20-03
998 $axsf$b07-01-03$cm$da$e-$feng$gnyu$h4$i1
935 $aADM-9576
907 $a.b15331775$b02-23-04$c07-20-03
998 $axsf$b07-01-03$cm$da$e-$feng$gnyu$h4$i1
945 $aF SaLinger 1953$g1$i31223037153153$lxsfgl$o-$p$0.00$q-$rc$so
$t1$u0$v0$w0$x0$y.i25499191$z08-05-03
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650 field - subjects
48. 650 0 $aTeenage boys$vFiction.
650 0 $aBrothers and sisters$vFiction.
650 0 $aPreparatory schools$vFiction.
650 4 $aAlienation in teenagers$vFiction.
650 4 $aTeenage boys$xInterpersonal relations$vFiction.
650 4 $aEmotionally disturbed teenage boys$vFiction.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Zoom in
49. 650 0 $aTeenage boys$vFiction.
650 0 $aBrothers and sisters$vFiction.
650 0 $aPreparatory schools vFiction.
650 0 $aAlienation in teenagers vFiction.
650 0 $aTeenage boys$xInterpersonal relations vFiction.
650 0 $aEmotionally disturbed teenage boys vFiction.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Strip out the MaRC gumpf
50. Teenage boys, Fiction, Brothers and sisters,
Preparatory schools, Alienation in teenagers,
Interpersonal relations, Emotionally disturbed
teenage boys
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Remove dupes, make it a human readable list
51. Teenage boys, Fiction, Brothers and sisters,
Preparatory schools, Alienation in teenagers,
Interpersonal relations, Emotionally disturbed
teenage boys
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Then put a page behind all of them...
52. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Looking at the subject page, you can see the Works with the most editions in the top panel,
with a handy indicator to tell you if you can read an electronic version....
53. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
If I scroll down...we’ve collated all the publish dates of all the editions with that subject
54. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
And, we can also display subjects that are used most often in conjunction with “Brothers and
Sisters”, as well as the authors who write most about them, and publishers who publish
books about them
55. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We can also collect subjects together at the author level. Here you can see what sorts of
subjects Salinger writes about, each of which links to its page...
56. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Subjects related to J. D. Salinger - note that we’ve retained the Place/Person/Time categories.
57. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Incidentally, my colleague Lance Arthur popped in and updated the Salinger record with a
note of his death.
64. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
It’s been great fun exposing this data in new ways, and uncovering all its indiosyncrasies...
Like, tiny variations in data entry.
I mean, is Halley’s Comet really a PLACE?
65. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Wondering about whether or not you could actually stand on the surface of Halley’s Comet...
Is that a helpful classification of a place?
66. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Another quick note on data in before I move on...
We’ve been experimenting with a couple of other “surgical” bots, that look across the catalog
and connect edition records directly to other services by stamping identifiers from other
systems into Open Library. This is a bot written by a developer called Ben Gimpert, that takes
a file mapping ISBN to Goodreads IDs, and looks for ISBN matches in OL, then adding the
Goodreads ID to those records. This allows us to construct links to Goodreads, and to make
the Goodreads ID available through the API.
67. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
You can see we’ve added a little widget on the page that connects to Goodreads, if you have
an account, you can add our records to your lists on Goodreads. There’s also a LibraryThing
ID too, added by a similar batch bot update.
Writing bots to do things like this is the sort of development we’d like to open up to external
developers too...
69. Substrate:
any surface on which a plant or animal lives or
on which a material sticks
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We have a repository that mostly contains records created by professionals. I find it useful to
consider these records as a substrate, something that can be reacted upon.
70. What if we consider the source
Open Library records like that?
Some rights reserved by Brynja Eldon
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Now that we’ve begun to reveal this substrate, how will people react to it? What reactions has
it caused so far?
71. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
So... Open Library is a virtual space. Its organization isn’t constrained like a physical catalog.
In fact, the more connections you can make into one of our “virtual index cards” the more
ways people have to discover and navigate its contents.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brixton/1394845916/
72. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
San Francisco Main Library, wallpaper made out of old card catalog files
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecastro/3089541727/
73. Some rights reserved by jared
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
What if a catalog looks like this? Is crystalline? What if it is unconstrained by the need to sort,
say, alphabetically?
From the artist of this image, Jared Tarbell: “Lines like crystals form at perpendicular angles
to existing lines. A complex form emerges.
1000 classic computational substrate, color palette stolen from Jackson Pollock: A simple
perpendicular growth rule creates intricate city-like structures. The simple rule, the complex
results, the enormous potential for modification; this has got to be one of my all time favorite
self-discovered algorithms. Lines likes crystals grow on a computational substrate.”
74. 1) Books are for use.
2) Every reader his [or her] book.
3) Every book its reader.
4) Save the time of the User.
5) The library is a growing organism.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
So, on the basis of the idea of our current catalog being a substrate, as Ranganathan
suggests in his five laws of library science...
75. 1) Books are for use.
2) Every reader his [or her] book.
3) Every book its reader.
4) Save the time of the User.
5) The library is a growing organism.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
So, on the basis of the idea of our current catalog being a substrate, as Ranganathan
suggests in his five laws of library science...
77. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
What happens when you introduce turbulence into the catalog? Here are a few examples of
the sorts of edits we’re seeing... at a rate of about 100,000 edits per month.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rreis/4859722551/sizes/l/
78. 100,000 edits per month
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
What happens when you introduce turbulence into the catalog? Here are a few examples of
the sorts of edits we’re seeing... at a rate of about 100,000 edits per month.
if you don’t stimulate an organism, it atrophies
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rreis/4859722551/sizes/l/
83. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Here’s an example of what I would call a subject domain expert. You can see from his recent
edits that he’s interested in zoology...
84. Domain Knowledge:
“A good introduction to
the zoo plankton.
Illustrated throughout.”
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Clicking through to his edits, he’s noting which books are good for what, as well as adding
additional metadata descriptors.
85. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
There’s a chap called David Murray who has used Open Library to catalog his father’s work
developing and publishing marriage records for the USA
86. New Subjects:
Created by a relative of the genealogist
who wrote all these publications.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
87. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
If you look at the edit history of this record, there’s been an update made by someone
connected to the author.
88. Hi, :) my grandparents live in
Miss Nelson's former home. I
added her year of death,
birthdate, and everything I
know about her.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
You’ll notice that the comment left on the latest edit is by someone connected to the author.
94. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
- so people directly connected to these records have begun to maintain them.
95. Unknown author 403
Unknown Author 358
Author unknown 254
No Author 145
Author Unknown 59
No Author. 54
Author 20
No author. 16
No author 12
unknown author 8
Unknown Author Unknown 7
no author 7
No Author Stated 7
(No Author) 6
No author noted 5
No author noted. 4
no author listed 4
(no author) 4
Author Not Stated 4
Author. 4
No author specified 3
Miscellaneous Author 3
no Author 3
Author One 3
Multi-Author 3
No Author Listed 3
No Stated Author 3
Author Anonymous 2
(no author given) 2
Author 2
Author Wright 2
Unkown Author 2
No author stated 2
Mms suspense author 2
Author Test 2
TEST AUTHOR 2
http://openlibrary.org/search
?author=author
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Duplicate authors (and editions) are an issue... This is an example search for author records
with “author” in their names... you can see the variety of ways that catalogers have noted
unknown authors...
96. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Author merge is an example of one of the tools we’ve built to help people clean up the data.
There are a ton of cases where tiny differences between data entry practices, and that’s
something hard for a computer to spot. But humans are very good at it. This author, Danny
Howell, has searched for himself, found duplicate entries, and merged them himself.
98. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
And has added several new records and covers for his own books.
99. History
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
History is an essential part of any wiki. You can see any/all changes to every record, and even
revert changes if you make a mistake, or want to clean something up quickly.
A big part of the redesigned site which launched in May this year was to surface the general
activity of the site more prominently, in the hope that it would indicate that there was a lot
going on.
100. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Detailed history list, from which you can select two different versions to compare. If I choose
the first version, and the most recent, I can see all the edits that have been made.
103. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
you can do a simple keyword search, or focus on specific fields like title, author or subject.
104. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
You can use search facets to zero in fairly quickly on books you can read online now, in this
example, I found 4 ebooks about Wellington.
106. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We’ve just released a rebuild of full text search too, and there are brand new Search Inside
APIs on the site, hot off the press.
108. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
This is a view of the search snippets in place on the pages, so you can do a quick scan for
context before you decide to open the bookreader.
109. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I can open the book and be reading it within seconds.
(Again, this is the new bookreader, coming out soon!)
110. Read, Borrow, Buy
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I sometimes have to pinch myself to remember that even though we’re a wiki, and open, and
have all these nice interfaces to explore the catalog, what we’re REALLY trying to do is
connect people to books. To help people find something to read. So, we connect to actual
books wherever we can.
112. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
There’s also a large collection of works available to the print-disabled community through
the NLS program at the Library of Congress. These books are available in DAISY format to
anyone registered for a key from the NLS, which will open these DAISYs on a text to speech
device.
113. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We’ve also connected to Overdrive, which is a system that manages loans for various libraries
around the world. All of these Overdrive titles have links that send you off to Overdrive to
borrow an eBook.
114. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Snapshot of the various combinations of links we can provide to get you to books... We’ve
worked with Overdrive in the states to get eBook versions of things for loans... We’re hoping
to make the vendors you can buy from more dynamic, and open up the sources for online
free texts. Right now, it’s just the Internet Archive texts that we link to in full.
That’s a glimpse of the sorts of Activity we’ve seen so far... now on to Data Out.
115. Data Out
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
As I mentioned, I spoke to Chris a long time ago about Open Library and Koha beginning to
work together.
I wanted to give a quick overview of the ways you can get data back out of Open Library,
something we’re looking to improve on constantly, and focus on into next year.
116. Open Source
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I’m sorry to say that if we’re completely honest, we’re open source by name only... It’s been
really inspiring to witness KohaCon though. I’m incredibly impressed by the strength and
productivity of the Koha development community. Something to aspire to, to be sure!
119. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The Library of Congress is using our Bookreader on read.gov. There are quite a few other
examples of the IA Bookreader out there on the web. Hopefully the redesign (with touch
interactions etc) will attract new people too...
120. Open Source
DATA
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I think it’s much more practical for us to consider ourselves as a free, open, editable
bibliographic repository.
121. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Today, you can download the whole catalog. But, that’s a HUGE dataset, and hard to work
with.
122. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Or, you can download individual editions, works or author records as RDF, JSON, or create a
Wikipedia citation that you can just paste straight in.
127. openlibrary.org/developers/api
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
We’ve been working to improve our API offering, and have released several new public APIs in
the past few months.
In addition to simply getting book records back, you can now also ping for subject-related
data and try out our brand new Full Text Search API.
We’re also working on a new Lists feature, and we actually wrote the APIs first, and then built
the feature off that.
128. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
One of quite a few examples of Open Library in the wild includes the National Library of
Australia’s new search engine, Trove.
129. Wednesday, October 27, 2010
You can see there that there are links to Open Library books wherever one can be sourced.
There are a growing number of sites making use of Open Library data... and that’s what we’re
all about - data in, data out. The more interconnections we can make with other systems, the
easier it will be for people to land where they want to go inside Open Library.
130. To conclude...
Some Koha ideas
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
If I were able to come to the hackfest - and I’m really sorry I won’t be there - I would be
looking to try a few things...
131. Using Open Library Records
(+ Read, Borrow, Buy?)
covers.openlibrary
Search Inside
Subjects Data
“Send to Koha”
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I’m so pleased to be here to begin the conversation of future integrations between Koha and
Open Library. I wonder if these few ideas might be good places to start...
(discuss ideas)
And with that...